Catch up or listen on-demand with the best of Radio Bimshire - the Voice of the Barbados National Library Service (https://bit.ly/radiobimshire). Radio Bimshire Presents is a selection of short stories, poetry, history, rare audio clips and humour - the sound of Barbadian heritage. Featuring: This Barbadian Life: real voices, true stories, only in Barbados; Off The Shelf: Readings of Barbadian writing; Reparations Revealed; Standpipe: Memories of Wash Day; Sounds of Freedom: Stories of Emancipation... and much more.
Radio Bimshire Presents
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Catch up or listen on-demand with the best of Radio Bimshire - the Voice of the Barbados National Library Service (https://bit.ly/radiobimshire). Radio Bimshire Presents is a selection of short stories, poetry, history, rare audio clips and humour - the sound of Barbadian heritage. Featuring: This Barbadian Life: real voices, true stories, only in Barbados; Off The Shelf: Readings of Barbadian writing; Reparations Revealed; Standpipe: Memories of Wash Day; Sounds of Freedom: Stories of Emancipation... and much more.
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Recent Episodes
June 17, 2026
House on James Street: Episode two - Building a slave society
<p>In Episode Two - "Building A Slave Society" - House on James Street explores the roots of the world that would one day define Sarah Ann Gill. Joining us is historian Professor Pedro Welch, who walks us through the 17th-century transformation of Barbados into a laboratory of plantation slavery. We trace how an overwhelmingly African population, brought from the Gold Coast, was systematically dehumanized by a "plantocracy"—and how they maintained their humanity within a brutal system that categorized them as property.</p><p><br></p><p>From the specific names recorded in 1654 plantation lists to the complex bureaucratic labels used for the growing free coloured population—FM, FN, and FC—this episode uncovers the rigid social structures that dictated life in early Barbados. We begin to see how this history of violence, intimacy, and resistance created the very environment that Sarah Ann Gill would one day navigate and challenge.</p><p>Produced and presented by Julius Gittens from a National Library Service lecture by late historian Professor Pedro Welch.</p><p> </p>
June 17, 2026
Sounds of Freedom III - Esther Phillips - 2 - “Hard Love - Odifo's Story"”
<p>This episode of Sounds of Freedom III traces the journey of a boy named Odifo and the enslaved mothers who loved – and lost – their children on Barbados’s sugar estates, through the words of poet and former Poet Laureate of Barbados, Esther Phillips. In this episode, Phillips reads her searing poem “Hard Love” and reflects on the emotional terror, brutality and impossible “adjustments” enslaved women were forced to make, knowing their babies could be sold away at any moment.</p><p><br></p><p>Host Shayla Murrell guides listeners through the soundscape of Drax Hall plantation in St George – once owned by James and Henry Drax – evoking the heat, cane dust and the small, weary bodies of children who laboured there, where nearly 30,000 enslaved Africans perished over two centuries. </p><p><br></p><p>This episode offers a powerful meditation on emancipation, memory and the long shadow of wealth built on the suffering of enslaved families in Barbados.</p><p></p>
June 15, 2026
New episodes: House on James Street
<p>Before Sarah Ann Gill became a National Hero, she was a free woman in Bridgetown — navigating a society built on the brutal logic of slavery. In this episode, we step into her world to explore the precarious, complex lives of free coloured women in early 19th-century Barbados.</p><p><br></p><p>The late historian Professor Pedro Welch unpacked the strategies these women — tavern owners, property holders, and political actors—used to carve out autonomy in a discriminatory society. From the political courage of Alexander Gill’s 1811 petition to the extraordinary, behind-the-scenes influence of Betty Goodwin in the Governor’s residence, we examine how wealth, negotiation, and survival paved the way for Sarah Ann Gill’s future defiance.</p><p><br></p><p>House on James Street - a radio documentary series only on Radio Bimshire - explores the contradictions of love, power, and property — and set the stage for the moment one house on James Street would change history.</p><p><br></p><p>Produced and presented by Julius Gittens </p>
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